Welfare Implications of User Innovation
The literature on new goods and social welfare generally assumes that innovations are developed by manufacturers. But innovation by users has been found to also be an important part of innovative activity in the economy. In this paper w...
Main Authors: | Henkel, Joachim, von Hippel, Eric A. |
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Format: | Working Paper |
Language: | en_US |
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2003
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/3541 |
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